OS X Mavericks to release this October, reports say

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Just four days from now, Apple is expected to unveil the new iPhone 5S, as well as the midrange iPhone 5C. Yesterday, a KGI analyst noted that Apple will likely release an iPad 5, Retina iPad mini, and a new cheap iPad mini (more or less an iPad mini C, so to speak) before the end of this year. Now, reports suggest that Apple’s new operating system, OS X Mavericks, will join the release fray, dropping sometime toward the end of October.

The news comes from the omniscient, omnipresent sources familiar with the matter, while other sources also suggested that Apple plans to launch both iOS 7 and Mavericks at the same time.

Apple’s new mobile operating system is expected to launch alongside the new iPhones, which are in turn expected to launch toward the end of September. So, if either rumor ends up coming to pass, we’ll have Mavericks in our hands and installed on our computers within a couple of months.

Aside from the usual upgrade to faster apps, Mavericks will feature better multi-monitor support, as well as a significantly upgraded Finder — perhaps OS X’s most integral function that is often lamented for not being as sufficient as it could be.

To continue on the Apple-releasing-everything train, there have been faint rumblings that the company is planning to refresh its line of computers before the year is out, which includes the garbage-can-like Mac Pro, as well as a Haswell MacBook Pro.

If all of these release reports end up being true, then by January 2014 we’ll be living in an entirely new generation of Apple products.